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West Shore Educational Service District (ESD) is looking for voters to renew their special education millage at the May 4 election.
“Voters in Mason, Lake, and Oceana county will have the opportunity to decide whether or not the plan to continue to support a one mill levy for students in special education across the three county area,” said Dr. Jason Jeffrey, the West Shore Educational Service District Superintendent. “One in six students who attend school here qualify for special education, which is about 1,400 students in total.”
Mason County Eastern has 37 students who have special needs and about 100 students in their district who utilize their center-based programs.
The Mason County Eastern Board of Education heard about the special project at its meeting Monday evening.
It started when Mason County Family Link provided turkeys and fixings for Thanksgiving and it snowballed from there.
âThat donation jump-started it,â said Superintendent Paul Shoup.
It began with about 20 turkeys, but the school added more families to the list, which meant more birds. So it became 25, then 30.
K-12 Principal Mark Forner said they approached the student council to do something similar for Christmas.
âIt was so well received, we decided to do it again. The community and staff support, plus donations from the (Community Foundation of Mason County) meant we had no limit to the number of meals we could provide,â Shoup said. âThe school really wrapped around it.â
The meeting was held using Google Meet with a dial in option for telephone users.
After the Nov. 4 election, one board seat was left open. Two people expressed interest in the appointment â Miller and Natalie Joynton.
Miller is currently the board secretary and his most recent term expired this year. He did not run for the position again during the election because he was running for the county commissioner seat for the 7th District, but lost to incumbent Ron Bacon.
Miller taught at MCE for 34 years and was the athletic director for a number of years afterward.
Joynton told the board she was new to MCE, as her daughter started in first grade this year. She was interested in becoming more involved, even if she was not appointed.
Timothy B. Shoup COLUMBUS, INDIANA Timothy B. Shoup, 72, passed away in his home on Monday, December 7, 2020. Tim was born in 1948 in Dayton, OH, to the late Forrest and Lois (Hesseman) Shoup. Tim moved to Indiana as a teenager, where he graduated from Columbus North High School. He enlisted in the Air Force and spent a tour at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, working as a Morse Systems Operator. Later, Tim joined the US Postal Service, and he was a city letter carrier at the Columbus, IN post office for 36 years. During that time, he spent over twenty years service first as a union steward and then as a union president for the Columbus city carriers. In that capacity, he loved nothing more than educating new supervisors on the finer points of the contract.